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BONNY ANNIE.
IT was on a day in the middle of April,
I went to Loughmay the maids to beguile.
My dear and my jewel, my honey, said he,
Will ye go to the North Highlands with me.
Many broad letters to Annie I did send,
The old wife her mother, she did apprehend,
From whence comes all these broad letters said she,
They come from Drymenus, said Annie to me.
I went to Drymenus my Annie to see,
But little I thought what should happen to me,
I went to Drymenus so bold was mysel,
And she bid me to call at the sign of the bell.
But I stopt at the tree till she came unto me.
And I soon made her glad to follow with me;
Look up bonny Annie and never look down,
A well and I grant you need never frown.
Look always to me with a blythe blinking eye,
For I knew she was fond to follow with me,
The night it is cold and my clothing is thin,
And a far way to go, I'll die or I win.
The night it is cold, and I know your afraid.
But I’ll kindly roll you in my braw Highland plaid,
Your pitiful pay it makes me for to say,
How can I live well on sixpence a day?
There's twopence for sugar, & twopence for tea.
And twopence for bisket and all is away.
But a captain's commission perhaps may befall.
Where you shall get madam from both great & small,
